Simplest (practical) file system?

There was always the OS-9 approach (IIRC), that used the last two bytes of each sector to link to the next sector. Worked well enough, although not dealing with even powers of two can be a pain. --John On Sunday 27 July 2003 23:55 pm, Patrick Rigney wrote: > snip > > > > >>I still think it's a better and more efficient way to go, and not much >>more work to code than the simpler schemes being suggested. >> >> >I agree that it's simple, but not that it's efficient. For small micros, >finding the first "0" bit in an arbitrarily long bit string takes a few >cycles. Brute force approaches will bleed time badly as the filesystem >fills. And if you free a sparse or fragmented file in a large filesystem, >it can require resetting a lot of sparse bits in that map, which can in >turn require a lot of reads and writes to the map blocks. > >Snip >